Sonnet 89: Now, That Of Absence
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Now that of absence the most irksome night,
With darkest shade doth overcome my day;
Since Stella's eyes, wont to give me my day,
Leaving my hemisphere, leave me in night,
Each day seems long, and longs for long-stay'd night;
The night as tedious, woos th'approach of day;
Tir'd with the dusty toils of busy day,
Languish'd with horrors of the silent night;
Suffering the evils both of the day and night,
While no night is more dark than is my day,
Nor no day hath less quiet than my night:
With such bad misture of my night and day,
That living thus in blackest winter night,
I feel the flames of hottest summer day.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBA ABBA ABA BAB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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